Beijing, New Era Art Park.
The New Era Art Center was established in 2001. It is located between Haidian Park and Beijing University, covering an area of nearly 700 mu. It is one of the key construction projects of Beijing's art and culture.
After more than ten years of development, the New Era Art Park has gathered a large number of well-known domestic film and television, music, literature and art production units. Big and small companies and studios are as many as thousands. It can be called a place where humanities gather.
The famous Flying Stone Records is in the New Era Art Park.
In the conference room, Lin Zhijie rubbed his eyebrows tiredly, and there was a trace of irritation in his eyes.
Sitting around the conference table with him were the vice president of Flying Stone Records, the manager of the brokerage department, the manager of the public relations department, a number of agents and several composers and arrangers in the production department. It could be said that they were all gathered together.
The theme of this morning's meeting was the planning of the debut album of the newly established girl group of Flying Stone Records - MSN Beautiful Girls Group.
MSN Beautiful Girls Group has a total of three members. M.S.N represents the initials of the three people. They are all about 20 years old, and both their appearance and singing skills are excellent.
Lin Zhijie was the initiator of the meeting, but he obviously couldn't fully control the situation.
There was a lot of opposition to the album planning plan formulated by the music director, very much so!
Such a situation was more or less beyond Lin Zhijie's expectation, but he has always had a resolute character and never flinched because of difficulties.
"I emphasize again that it is the right choice to invite Lu Chen to help produce this album. His creative talent is obvious to all and he is trustworthy."
MSN Beautiful Girls was a girl group newly launched by Flying Stone Records to cater to the market of young people.
For this veteran record company, the establishment of this girl group was not easy. The two girl groups they launched a few years ago ended in failure, causing considerable losses to the company.
As the saying goes, once bitten, twice shy. If it weren't for the popularity of girl groups now, and the popular boy and girl groups making a lot of money, Flying Stone Records would not have made up their mind to set up a new girl group again.
The three members of MSN were personally selected by Lin Zhijie. In order to make this group a hit, he teamed up with the planning department to develop a full set of publicity plans.
Among them, the most important was MSN's debut album!
In the end, Lin Zhijie did not expect that his plan would encounter such great resistance within the company.
"Director Lin …"
Yi Xiangjun, vice president of Flying Stone Records, smiled and said, "Lu Chen is indeed an excellent singer-songwriter, but his works are mainly folk songs, which are not suitable for MSN's style positioning, and …"
The middle-aged woman in her 40s knocked on the table with her fingers and emphasized, "He asked for 350,000 yuan for one of his songs. With such a price, who can't we invite? Moreover, I believe that the authors in the company will be able to come up with sufficiently outstanding works. "
She looked at the three composers and arrangers who had signed with Flying Stone Records, with encouragement in her eyes.
The latter all straightened their backs, and one of them, a gentleman with black-rimmed glasses, nodded and said, "As long as the company needs it, we colleagues will do our best to produce good works."
After a pause, he said in an unquestionable tone, "At least it won't be worse than others!"
The man's name was Fan Jun. He was the chief contracted author of Flying Stone Records and a famous composer and arranger in the circle. He has written many excellent works, but in recent years, there have been few excellent works.
Fan Jun has cooperated with Flying Stone Records for nearly 20 years. He has a high status in this veteran record company. With the support of Yi Xiangjun, he was really not afraid to go against Lin Zhijie.
And in Fan Jun's heart, he was very dissatisfied with Lin Zhijie's album planning.
Lin Zhijie's idea was to invite outsiders to supervise MSN's debut album and write the title song, while letting several senior authors as assistants.
If it was a big figure in the circle, Fan Jun wouldn't have any ideas.
Who the hell was Lu Chen?
He was just a newcomer who had just made his debut and was lucky enough to produce an album that sold well. He dared to offer an astonishing price of 350,000 yuan per song. He really didn't know the immensity of heaven and earth.
Fan Jun was not convinced. He had been working in this industry for so many years, and the results of his works were well known. How could he be willing to submit to a junior?
If Lin Zhijie really insisted, he would dare to flip the table and fall out with him – he could make a living wherever he went!
"Yes, yes …"
Fan Jun was very strong-willed. Others echoed him one after another and put forward various reasons for opposition.
Their reasons were nothing more than that Lu Chen's offer was too high, his qualifications were too shallow, his creative style was not right, and so on.
They were just short of pointing at Lin Zhijie's nose and saying that he was talking nonsense.
Lin Zhijie's face was as gloomy as water.
As one of the largest record companies in China, Flying Stone Records has experienced prosperity and recession, almost went bankrupt and was reborn again. It was really not easy to persist and survive until now.
In recent years, Flying Stone Records has been seeking innovation and change, conforming to the development of the times, and striving to compete for market share with the emerging entertainment media companies, and has also achieved considerable results.
But the competition in this industry was too fierce. In the eyes of outsiders, Flying Stone Records was a big and powerful company, but Lin Zhijie was very clear about the company's current problems.
The first was the phenomenon of a shortage of singers and artists.
There were a lot of singers signed by Flying Stone Records, and there were several in the A-list, but all of them were old people from the 1980s and 1990s. They were more than enough to defend their achievements but not enough to make progress, and lacked enough appeal among young people.
Of course, the company also attached great importance to the cultivation of new people, but so far, there was no one who could take the lead!
It was under such circumstances that Lin Zhijie promoted the establishment of MSN.
However, he underestimated the resistance from within the company.
Lin Zhijie knew that, as the music director, he had touched the interests of some people, so he was regarded as crossing the line.
Encountering opposition was inevitable!
Buzz ~
At this time, the cell phone on the table suddenly vibrated.
Lin Zhijie picked up the phone and glanced at it, and his face changed a little.
"Sorry, I'll take the call first."
He immediately got up and left the conference room and went out to answer the phone.
The atmosphere in the conference room relaxed. Yi Xiangjun chatted with several department managers. Fan Jun chatted and laughed with the singer's agents, looking like he had won.
With such fierce opposition from everyone, Lin Zhijie's plan was bound to fail.
Everything would go back to its original track.
After a while, Lin Zhijie came back.
He didn't sit down again, but waved his mobile phone at everyone and said, "Let's put this matter aside first!"
Yi Xiangjun frowned and said, "Director Lin, this is not good, is it? Everyone is very busy. I think it's better to finalize the new plan first, so as not to waste time. Tomorrow, the company will have a National Day long holiday! "
She thought that Lin Zhijie was playing a trick of delaying time in order to win the support of the company's senior management.
Lin Zhijie smiled and said, "I also want to finalize it, but Miss Chen Fei 'er is coming here soon. I believe everyone knows that her new album will be produced in our company."
The cooperation between Chen Fei 'er and Flying Stone Records has a long history. Any of the former's albums is extremely important to Flying Stone Records, and there is no room for neglect.
The weight of this, Yi Xiangjun could still weigh it.
But she still had doubts: "Director Lin, did Miss Chen Fei 'er come for her new album?"
I didn't see any notice from the company!
Lin Zhijie nodded and said, "Yes, she came with Lu Chen, because Miss Chen Fei 'er has chosen the two songs Lu Chen wrote for her as the first and second title songs of her new album!"
What?!
Everyone at the scene was shocked.
Chen Fei 'er actually used Lu Chen's works as the title songs of her new album, and it was two songs!
She was a big shot at the Heavenly Queen level!
What virtue and ability did Lu Chen have?
Fan Jun suddenly felt that his face was burning, and he was a little ashamed.
Fan Jun had long known about Chen Fei 'er's new album.
Fan Jun even had the ambition to write the title song for this album. Once it could be realized, his career and reputation would undoubtedly take a new step.
But Fan Jun was also very clear that his position was not enough. He might be able to get the benefits of the song collection and arrangement for Chen Fei 'er's new album, but it was basically a delusion to write the title song.
He never thought that Chen Fei 'er's title song would actually choose Lu Chen's work, which he disdained.
In addition, Lu Chen could write the title song for Chen Fei 'er, so it would be a piece of cake for him to produce MSN's album.
Their previous reasons for opposition had all become a joke!
Whether it was Fan Jun or Yi Xiangjun, they had a feeling of being slapped in the face on the spot.
Seeing the ugly expressions on the faces of these people present, Lin Zhijie was really happy in his heart.
Chen Fei 'er's assistant informed him yesterday that Chen Fei' er would come to Flying Stone Records this morning.
Lin Zhijie also just learned the reason why Chen Fei 'er came to the company.
To tell the truth, he was also very surprised. He couldn't figure out why Chen Fei 'er chose Lu Chen.
With Chen Fei 'er's status in the circle, she could casually invite top authors, and few creators could refuse her.
It should be known that for this album, Chen Fei 'er had the idea of transformation. The difficulty of its production was bound to be very high, and once it was successful, its influence would also be huge!
What song did Lu Chen write that moved this Queen of Sweet Songs?
Lin Zhijie was really curious!
But on the surface, he still maintained his composure and said, "MSN's album plan will be postponed. I'll go to meet Miss Chen Fei 'er first. Does President Yi want to come together?"
This time, no one raised any objections, and several composers and arrangers looked at each other.
Yi Xiangjun felt like she had swallowed a fly and couldn't spit it out even if she wanted to.
She could only force out a smile: "Then let's go together."
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